Definitions
A unit used to measure energy in food or heat.
Word origin
Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.
Used in a sentence
“Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie”
“Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie”
“Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Food energy unit”7 letters
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